What color diamond dove is this?

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Cye
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What color diamond dove is this?

Post by Cye » Mon Jan 19, 2015 5:03 pm

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The best I can tell is rufous? He's dark gray, with darker gray spots on his head, black rump/tail, and a fairly good tinge of brown on his back, which photos really bring out.

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Colt
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Re: What color diamond dove is this?

Post by Colt » Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:57 pm

The bird to the left is called a Blue Diamond Dove (also known as the wild-type Diamond Dove). The other bird appears to be a Blue White-rump or something of the sort.

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Re: What color diamond dove is this?

Post by Chris103 » Thu Jan 22, 2015 5:10 pm

I'll second Colt on the mutations. Though, The only way to be 100% sure is by open wing pictures. My White Tailed Red Diamond Doves look almost just like a Blue WT....Until you spread open their wings and have a look at their Flight Feathers. The amount of dilution, suffusion. ..or lack there of, will determine the exact mutation.
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